On 20 September 2015 at 05:58, John Foust <jfoust at threedee.com> wrote:
> Someone's demonstrated you can hide in the firmware of hard drives.
And access the hypervisor layer of an OS in various ways from programs
executing inside a VM.
So, for instance, much malware self-inactivates if it detects that
it's running inside a guest instance, so that anti-malware
investigators cannot examine its behaviour.
What is now being investigated (doubtless by both sides) is malware
that can inject code into the hypervisor from within a guest. Once
you've reached x86-64 Ring -1, then you're a god, you can do anything
you like to any VM and no anti-malware in the VMs can prevent it.
There is also research into using the increasingly industry-standard
remote-management features in core chipsets to hide or distribute
malware, again out of reach of any OS-level task.
And there is the very controversial claim of malware that could
transmit itself from machine to machine using speakers and microphone.
It's a jungle out there, with all that that implies about parasitism,
zombieism, concealment and stealth and creepy disgusting infections
that hide for a lifetime then apparently explode out of nowhere.
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On Fri, 18 Sep 2015, John Foust wrote:
> As to why your antivirus didn't see it... there's always a few days
> before the latest infection mechanisms are documented and added to
> the AV updates.
CryptoLocker has been around for a year. I don't think that McAfee nor
AVG see it. "Well, it's not a VIRUS, . . ."
> When I first heard about Cryptolocker, I wanted to give up consulting
> and find a different career.
Is there a way to crowdfund a hit?
Todd,
Well, hopefully this community is about celebrating people that have an
interest in saving old valuable hardware. Not bullying them. Saving
substantial hardware involves a substantial personal investment in time and
money. So, Todd, well done, congratulations on your buy, and thanks for
taking care of a rare 026. And if you need any tips for restoration I would
be happy to help (I have an 026 and an 029, both fully functional now).
Marc
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Message: 27
From: Todd Goodman <tsg at bonedaddy.net>
Subject: Re: IBM 026
Message-ID: <20150918235900.GF30683 at ns1.bonedaddy.net>
* Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> [150918 07:25]:
> So I see this sold - anyone know who got it?
>
> Noel
Yes. I did. I'll let people know what's up when I receive it. Though
i don't expect to get much time with it for a while.
Todd
Various items that will probably be of interest here.? No reasonable offer refused.
Hard copy??? You got it:DecWriter LA30? (modified to show lower case, yes it works).DecWriter LA36 (Decwriter II)
Sun 4/110 floor standing model, 36 megs (if I remember correctly).Two SCSI boxes that go with the Sun, I believe one has an operating system on it.Apple LaserWriter Plus, two (UNOPENED) toner cartridges for it.ADDS Viewpoint 3A terminal.
Just so you know it is "classic":JVC U-Matic (3/4 inch) video cassette recorder, with cables.? NTSC.
Sorry I can't ship these, they are currently located in zip code 95008.PayPal accepted at time of sale.
Make me an offer I can't refuse!
I would think the fixed head media swapped faster than the RK's
unlessthee fixed head media was really slow... Ed#
In a message dated 9/19/2015 10:45:53 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
aek at bitsavers.org writes:
On 9/19/15 9:44 AM, John Wilson wrote:
> later TSS/8s already supported RKs
> as data disks, unless I've gone senile). No idea how they managed that
--
>
UW-M's TSS/8 supported that. It should be in the monitor sources that we
read.
there was a time I really wanted a tss 8 system to use and even
started colleting stuff for it in the late 70s but along came the 2000 f
HP system I bought and I headed in that direction.. which gave be an
HP destiny not a DEC Destiny. but still ... would love to find a
tss-8 all together in the racks as used back then... Ed#
In a message dated 9/19/2015 1:45:44 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
wilson at dbit.com writes:
On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 12:30:13PM -0700, Al Kossow wrote:
>When did the 4K user space(s?) actually swap? Did they round-robin or swap
>based on activity? I would think they would stay in place until cpu-bound
>jobs reached their time quantum. With only a couple of people on a 32k
>machine, it may not even swap that much, depending on what the users were
>running. I'd guess BASIC was pretty big.
My understanding is that it's round-robin among runnable jobs, one time
slice at a time. I.e. the simplest possible way. IIRC the monitor always
takes up two fields (not swappable). One more field (so, 12 KW total) is
the minimum necessary to run at all -- SI, FIP, and all the users can share
that field with frantic enough swapping (which causes a pretty lights show
on the RF08 panel). Any more memory than that means less swapping (or
none), so it's kicking out the LRU job as needed. I have a hazy memory
that SI and FIP *only* run in field 2? Could be wrong.
BASIC runs in your 4 KW with you. I've never seen its sources so I don't
know how clever it is about overlays and/or keeping your program on disk.
It's a very limited BASIC. Strings are 6 characters. Not max -- *always*
6.
Line #s max out at 2046.
John Wilson
D Bit
Someone asked about uploading the SunOS 4.1 docubox I had scanned, so I finally
got around to doing that today, but discovered that I never scanned the part 1,
just the system calls of 800-3827. I suspect that I never had it. So if someone
has that or a Solaris 1.x docubox a scan would be helpful.
>> From: Jerome H. Fine
>> a list of the actual links to the other PDF files which are
>> available to be viewed would be appreciated.
> I should probably throw together a web page with links to all the
> PDP-11 files there (e.g. the one I just put together, of print sets
> that are available inside other print sets), and link to that from my
> home page.
OK, done:
http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/tech/pdp11/PDP-11_Stuff.html
I'll update it anything I put up anything else. Anyone and everyone is free,
nay urged, to mirror any of the material that page links to on their own
sites.
Noel
Some years ago I recall reading about possibly modifying TSS/8 to run on
more recent disks instead of the ancient DF32 (a whopping 32Kword fixed head
disk with up to three more slaved platters).
Did anyone actually implement the changes? I know it wouldn't work well on a
moving-head disk without significant changes, because the swapping is more
or less constant.
-Charles
what is a O.O
jay?
In a message dated 9/19/2015 9:54:12 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
jwest at classiccmp.org writes:
Ed wrote....
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Seems like a ssd would make an ideal fixed head replacement if it
has to swap swap swap all the time?
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O.O
J
